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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Bath and North East Somerset Council. Also known as B&NES, BathNES and BANES.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Bath and North East Somerset website
71,448 approved · 10,150 refused · 6,437 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 12 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 14 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases, Upper Borough Walls, Bath, BA1 1RL
Received 30 Nov 199836 Bathwick Hill, Bath, BA2 6LD
Received 1 Dec 19985 Cardinal Close, Bath, BA2 2AE
Received 1 Dec 199827 Lansdown Heights, Lansdown, Bath, BA1 5AE
Received 25 Nov 19984 Lynfield Park, Bath, BA1 4ER
Received 27 Nov 1998Beckford Tower, Lansdown Road, Bath, BA1 9BH
Received 24 Nov 1998Street Record, Milsom Street, City Centre, Bath
Received 18 Nov 1998270 Englishcombe Lane, Bath, BA2 2ES
Received 30 Nov 199815A Haviland Grove, Bath, BA1 4JP
Received 2 Dec 19988 Hansford Close, Bath, BA2 5LW
Received 2 Dec 19984 Bladud Buildings, Bath, BA1 5LS
Received 2 Dec 19982 Darlington Mews, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4EW
Received 3 Dec 1998University Of Bath, University Of Bath Campus, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7PB
Received 4 Dec 1998Windsor Bridge Garage, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, BA1 3AS
Received 17 Nov 1998Windsor Bridge Garage, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, BA1 3AS
Received 17 Nov 1998Ground Floor Flat, 25 Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AD
Received 2 Dec 1998Car Park, Walcot Street Car Park, City Centre, Bath, BA1 5BJ
Received 9 Dec 19982 Northumberland Buildings, Bath, BA1 2JB
Received 8 Dec 1998Menzies Waterside Hotel, Rossiter Road, Widcombe, Bath, BA2 4JP
Received 7 Dec 199835 Eastbourne Avenue, Bath, BA1 6EN
Received 7 Dec 19987 Horseshoe Walk, Bath, BA2 6DE
Received 7 Dec 1998Inchalloch (Now Known As Flats 1-12, Snow Hill, Bath, BA1 6DN
Received 2 Dec 1998Cooperative Retail Services, 112 Mount Road, Southdown, Bath, BA2 1LN
Received 10 Dec 199820 Westmoreland Street, Bath, BA2 3HE
Received 10 Dec 1998Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Bath and North East Somerset Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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